====== Alteryx ======

Alteryx(r)((The obligatory cover my arse statement: Alteryx and SRC are registered trademarks of their respective owners)) is a great spatially oriented ETL tool.  It allows you to do many spatial operations such as finding intersections, etc, within a very user friendly GUI environment.  However, with SRC's recent move to become "Alteryx(r), Inc." the price of this tool pretty much puts it out of reach of just about anyone without very deep pockets...to the tune of nearly 6 figures for a single user one year license (at the time of writing).  Especially considering that a comparable tool exists that is free and open source, [[http://www.geokettle.org|GeoKettle]].  

Anyhow, take a look at it, it's a good tool, and maybe the license fees will come down over time.  Also take a look at Pentaho Data Integration ((Probably also a registered trademark))(PDI, formerly known as [[techie:kettle:start|Kettle]]), as I believe it can be easily extended to handle geospatial operations as well.

These days, I prefer to write Python code to do most of these kinds of things, because it's testable, repeatable, and reusable, and it doesn't really take that much time.  I will occasionally dust off PDI if I just want a one off transform, but inevitably that one-off become something I need to do again and I find myself wishing I had written it in Python.